Sunday, February 23, 2014

People pay to see others believe in themselves. Maybe people don't know whether they can experience the erotic or whether it exists only in commercials; but on stage, in the midst of rock 'n' roll, many thing happen and anything can happen, whether people come as voyeurs or come to submit to the moment. As a performer you sacrifice yourself, you go through the motions and emotions of sexuality for all the people who pay to see it, to believe that it exists. Første del af Kim Gordons indsigtsfulde Artforum-essay fra 1983.

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

John Stuart Mill's On Liberty must be the ideal text to justify any avant-garde, whether of right or left, whether Futurist or Surrealist. But locating moral energy in a saleable object is like selling indulgences, and we know what reforms that provoked.

Friday, February 07, 2014

Fun & games. I walked past this store in Mariannenstraße yesterday, the same day where Mogwai played at Tempodrom just a few U-Bahns stops away. Mogwai's third album is called Rock Action (2001), but a rock in German is a skirt. Later today when I got my camera to take a picture they changed the sign to "Kleid Aktion" which means dress action. I was upset and walked into the store and asked for the sign. A confused, but friendly employee let me take a picture. This one goes out to Mogwai. Sorry I missed the show, I <3 Rave Tapes.